Container & Cargo Handling – Page 79
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Rosslare Europort gets upgrade
Consultants Royal Haskoning recently became involved in an upgrade project at the Irish port of Rosslare. The project addressed the repair of berths 1 and 2 at Rosslare Europort where the pier is 260m long and was built in the 1950s using two parallel walls of concrete blockwork founded on ...
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NewsFlexible friends
Felicity Landon finds out why these flexible friends have so much to offer to small and medium-sized ports.
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Bespoke tailoring
This year Gottwald officially launches its new Crane Generation 5 range, which it says has been designed in response to the specific requirements of terminal operators, stevedoring companies and shipping companies, and are higher, more powerful and faster.
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NewsDouble deal for consultants
Royal Haskoning, the engineering, architecture and environmental consultancy, describes its experiences working on two projects for the Yemeni government''s investment arm.
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NewsMultilift: for and against
Terminals pursuing growth want to maximise the productivity of every lift cycle. That is why the trend is towards twin-lifts from ship-to-shore and twin-lifts on the yard, says Bromma. But does it necessarily follow that a universal rush to multilift spreaders is justified? Felicity Landon reports.
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The system approach
Handling equipment suppliers are getting involved much earlier in the port planning process, claiming more effective systems selection and, hopefully, faster payback. Neil Madden reports.
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NewsPlanned system migration
One of the most comprehensive projects in which Kalmar''s capability has been used is the Port Est extension, on the Indian Ocean island of Ré union.
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NewsWhen business profiles change
If Tilbury''s experience is anything to go by, ports have much to gain by outsourcing their materials handling operations. Felicity Landon reports.
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NewsThe Congestion Buster
Barcelona is to award a 30-year concession this year for its brand new container terminal on Prat Quay. Late last year, the port''s second box handling facility, Tercat, made all the industry headlines when it was revealed that its bidding partner for the contract would be none other than the ...
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Demand holds strong
Ports and terminal operators are continuing to invest heavily in additional ship-to-shore container gantry cranes, in order to keep pace with the sizeable annual growth in box traffic volumes. Rowland Armstrong reports.
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NewsSelective outsourcing
" The importance of good maintenance cannot be over-emphasised, " says KS Won, president of Portek Indonesia. The company is part of Portek Group, and maintains a total of 28 quay cranes, 40 RTGs and four MHCs across the whole Indonesian archipelago.
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Beware of getting locked in
Would you purchase a vehicle that provided marginally better performance or was marginally less expensive than conventional vehicles, but had only one supplier on the planet for replacement parts? Where even basic maintenance items will have a long lead time and a handsome price tag.
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NewsLagos End Game
APM Terminals looks set to take over the Apapa Container Terminal in Lagos, Nigeria but will this prove to be a double-edged sword? Mike Mundy reports.
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NewsA pearl where it's needed
A new container port is adding to the competition for traffic in the Pearl River Delta region. James Macpherson considers what Nansha has to offer.
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Bags of Concern
Daniel C. Negron, vice president in the US for Thomas Miller, managers of the TT Club, offers some tips on dealing with the handling problems presented by breakbulk cargoes.
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Follow the Mantra
These issues are certainly not confined to less-developed countries alone. While containerisation has spread into most of the world''s trade routes, there will always be a certain amount of breakbulk that will be shipped through them as well.
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NewsHow green is your machine?
Manufacturers of pneumatic systems are becoming increasingly vocal when stressing the environmentally friendly nature of their products. But exactly how friendly are pneumatic unloaders? Alex Hughes went to find out.
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What about the workers?
Because pneumatic unloaders produce less dust emission, equipment operators consequently inhale lower quantities of dust which makes them safer to work with. In comparison to grabs, from which material can so easily escape, practically nothing gets out of an enclosed pneumatic discharge operation. This lack of dust is much more ...
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NewsBigger, Smarter, Greener
The current boom in port development is creating record demand for new RTGs and they are getting bigger, smarter and greener, writes Benedict Young.
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NewsBuffer against competitive failure
With bigger vessels in the offing for the main East-West trades, and the “cascade effect” showering incumbent vessels down to some of the feeder routes, what are the implications in terms of fendering requirements?
